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Driven by its war cry to futureproof healthcare systems globally by creating healthy people not patients, Galway-based Cellnutrition Health is in the process of testing and producing a new vaccine for viruses including the ever-mutating COVID-19 as well as bacteria, fungi and parasitic infections.

The roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign commenced in Portiuncula University Hospital this past week with Louise Ann McGrath, Clinical Nurse Manager 2, St John’s Ward being the first staff member in the hospital to receive the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.

The current Miss Galway who works as a medical scientist at University Hospital Galway has spoken of the hope that the rollout of the Covid 19 vaccine has given society.

On Thursday morning, January 7 2021 - 91-year-old  (Ellen) Agnes Bourke from Rathall, Crossmolina was the first resident at the St Augusitne's Community Nursing Unit in Ballina to be vaccinated against Covid-19. 

The roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign began in Mayo University Hospital on Wednesday, January 6.

This is the first column of 2021 and I share all of your hopes that this year will be a better year than 2020.

Staff in University Hospital Galway were among those who received the first doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine administered on Tuesday, with management immediately hailing it as a milestone event which will offer protection for staff and patients who come into contact with the deadly virus.

Staff in Portiuncula University Hospital are once again supporting the UNICEF ‘Get a Vaccine, Give a Vaccine’ campaign by getting their flu vaccination.

This is the last column for 2020. I remember writing early in 2020 what a satisfactory feel there was to the year 2020, a sense that somehow this was a year that would herald untold promise.

What a marvellous weekend of sports we had, and all available on TV. It was really a great indulgence, but I spent ages looking at the ones I was following.